The Penn's Grove record., 1887-08-06
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NEWS IN BRIEF.

American SJuuenLS.
-Grocers' clerks in Plttsburg are
organizing for shorter hours.
-Haryard's law department is to
publish q law monthly.
Paris is said to consume nearly
fifty tons of snails in q season.
"A large ice factory is to be put In
operation at Roanoke, Virginia.
The mayor of Dubuque, Iowa,
runs a lunch counter and saloon.
An Atlantic City hotel cook re.
celved $50 the other day for giving a
guest his receipt for making mullins.
During the year 1886 thirty-six
telegraph offices were opened in China.
An outbreak of rabies and hydro.
phobia is reported from Cairo, Egypt.
"A hunter in Nine Pierre, d. T.,
recently killed a rabbit four feet long.
An Iona (Mlch.) justice of the
peace has begun suit for a wedding
fee.
The electric cable is to supercede
horses on the New Brunswick On. ID
street railway.
"A portrait Of death 'tas large as
life" was lately advertised In an Irish
provincial paper.
Malaria is the name of a newly
established post office in Mecklenburg
county, Virginia.
1t has been discovered In Paris
that the contents Of many of the letter
boxes are Systematically burned.
"A mitrallleuse is being tried in the
Austrian army which is said to be able
to fire 1000 bullets in 90 seconds.
-Leyden University in Holland, is
the richest in the world. Its real es-
tate alone is said to be worth 81, 000,.
900.
More colored people are said to
have attended the funeral of the late
Bishop Lee than were ever before seen
at a funeral III Delaware.
RABBI Gerstmann, of st. Louis,
who was a lieutenant In the Florida
war, has been granted a pension, with
arrears amounting to $4,000.
-Boardln g-hCuse keepers In Wash
lngton are worried over the loss of the
board OF visiting Indians, which the In.
Ola Department refuses to pay
After many fruitless efforts in that
direction a local society in Cincinnati
has succeeded in having four actors
fined S25 each for acting on Sunday.
New York (city) manufactured
nearly 4,000,00 0 less cigars during the
FIRST quarter of this year than during
the corresponding period of last year.
-Engineso OF IL 200 horse power have
just been shipped from Glasgow, Scot
land, to st. Petersburg. They will be
put in the new Russian ironclad Sinope.
MANY valuable gifts, including one
of $4,000 and another of an organ,
have BEEN presented by anonymous
donors for the new English church at
Copenhagen.
The rails of The sixteen street car
companies in New York would reach
to Jacksonville, Florida, from the
former city, it is stated, If land in con-
tinuous line.
The Chinese Testament, revised by
the Rev. Griffith John, has Just been
published, and the demand for parts of
this version averages nearly 1000
copies per day.
The whole country around about
Oxford, New Jersey, has been filled
with smoke from fire that has been
consuming a woods in that vicinity
for some days past.
Orange, New Jersey, successfully
experimental with an electrical street
railway (half mile). and the whole
line, it is stated, will now be equipped
with electric motors.
An iron co~Hln-shaped receptacle
has been accidentally found by cistern
diggers at Kansas City, Mo-, and the
finders believe they have struck a pre-
historic burial casket.
Bean shooters in the hands of boys
have caused such a boom in the win
dow glass business in Pittsburg as to
call for an order from the police author
tiles prohibiting their sale.
"A red-hot poker, which she
thrust down her throat. was the extra
ordinary instrument of self-destruc.
tion selected by a dlssipated woman OF
Charlottetown. N. s., recently.
The "fnds" of the remain of lake
dwellers in Lake Constance, Switzer-
land, are reported to have been very
good this year, owing to the unusual
lowness Of the waters Of the lake.
"A Bucks county farmer, who sent
ten dollars to a Philadelphia address,
in answer to an advertisement of the
finest feed cutter in America, received
in return a two-dollar set of false
teeth.
"A clock, whose dial is said to bs
80 feet in diameter. and which is
claimed to be the biggest in the world,
is in curse of construction in New
York, and is to be placed at Manhattan
Beach.
"A petition has been prepared at
San Francisco asking the Navy Depart
ment not to condemn the old flagship
Hartford, but to preserve it as the
English kept Nelson's flagship Victoria
from sentiments of patriotism.
Owing to the increase In freight
rates from the East, under the Inter-
State Commerce law, the boarding
house and restaurant keepers of River
side, CAL, "are compelled" to raise
their rates Of board.
"A drummer, attempting to elope
with his best girl from Augusta, Ga,
was arrested as a horse thief by the
man from whom he had hired the
buggy, but managed to escape the law
In time to get married.
"A tariff rate for the telephone be-
tween Paris and Brussels has been
agreed upon by the French and Bel
CLAN Governments. The monthly SUBJ
scription for a daily conversation OF
10 minutes is fixed at 1907.
"A divorce suit in Minneapolis has
developed the fact that the defendant,
who was bartender in a local saloon, is
the scion Of a noble English family,
and that his son is heir to an estate
SAID to be worth a couple OF million
dollars.
"A vein of coal was discovered re-
Gently at San Luis Obispo, CAL, while
running a tunnel to supply the County
Hospital with water. Some Of the coal
was taken to a blacksmith shop and
tried, proving Of excellent quality.
"A aock of wild geese flying oyer
Waterbury, Connecticut, recently saw